On 2015-05-18 14:16, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Stefan Agner <ste...@agner.ch> writes: > >> MAC addresses can be written without leading zeros. A popular >> example is libc's ether_ntoa_r function which creates such >> MAC addresses. >> >> Example: >> 00:14:3d:0f:ff:fe can be written as 0:14:3d:f:ff:fe >> >> The function get_ether_addr potentially also parsed past the >> end of the user provided string. Use the opportunity and fix >> the function to never parse beyond the end of the string while >> allowing MAC addresses with and without leading zeros. Also >> corner cases such as 00:14:3d:0f:ff:0 + new-line character >> are parsed correctly. > > Please don't allow arbitrary noise in an exported API like this. It's > just a recipe for bugs. Do strict parsing and return clean errors on > unexpected input. Don't try to "fix up" anything. Leave that for > userspace.
There is not much fix-up beside the allowance of the libc standard format with single digits and the new-line character. > >> static int get_ether_addr(const char *str, u8 *dev_addr) > > This function should simply call mac_pton() like the other mac address > parsers in the kernel. I agree that using a common implementation makes sense, however that implementation does not support the central idea of that patch: supporting the standard format which is created by libc's ether_ntoa_r... -- Stefan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
